Slides for Beth Shaw, founder of YogaFit who spoke at the 13th Annual Mindful Leadership Summit in Washington DC in front of 200 Executive Women in Government.

1. A Call To Mindful
Leadership
Beth Shaw
Author, Coach & Visionary
Founder / CEO of YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide

2. YOU ARE ALL LEADERS -
1. LEADING CHANGE
2. LEADING PEOPLE
3. BUILDING COALITIONS
MINDFULNESS WILL MAKE
YOU BETTER AT ALL THREE

3. Mainstream Mindfulness –
Where to Start?

4. Introduction
What exactly is mindfulness?
 Mindfulness involves being relaxed yet observant of what you see,
hear, and feel — especially of your own breathing.
 Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn says: “Mindfulness equals awareness, but it’s the
awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose, in the
present moment, nonjudgmentally.”
 He adds: “It’s just about the hardest thing for a human being to do.”
* Mindfulness includes awareness techniques

5. How does Mindfulness Help?
 Leaders listen differently and communicate more carefully
 Employees are more aware of their emotions and how it
affects the people around them
 Focus on positivity and perspective through skillful self-
management
 Employees are more productive and show higher job
satisfaction
 Work is more enjoyable for everyone!

6. All mindfulness is doing is
trying to get us more attuned
to the thoughts, emotions,
and sensations that we’re
experiencing.
Mindfullness helps us make
better choices.
MINDFULNESS MAKES YOU
A BETTER LEADER

7. Corporate Perks
 Google’s meditation expert, Chade-Meng Tan annual mindfulness
course “Search Inside Yourself” has a waitlist of 6 months
 General Mills 7-week mindfulness program
 80% senior executives reported improved decision-making
 89% said they had become better listeners
 Intel introduced Awake@Intel including yoga and meditation
 Goldman Sachs wellbeing seminars using mediation app Headspace
 Aetna established yoga and meditation classes
 $9 million saving in health care costs
 28% decrease in stress levels
 Estimated an added value of $3000/employee a year

8. WHY MINDFULNESS
 Research now points to the practical and measurable benefits of
mindfulness practice–studies show mindfulness in fact makes people
less stressed, more productive, healthier, even happier too.
 In the last decade, mindfulness has been used inside companies to
lower health costs, improve increase employee productivity, help
employees stay “on task” and reduce employee stress through a
combination of breathing techniques and mental relaxation.

9. Drinking the “Kool Aid”
 “I’m on mobile devices all day long,” said Anderson
Cooper on 60 Minutes “I feel like I could go through an
entire day and not be present. It’s exhausting.”
 “Gives us the focus to navigate complex challenges, the
creativity to spur innovation, and the patience to learn
from those who disagree with us,” said President Bill
Clinton after reading Congressman Tim Ryan’s A Mindful
Nation
 “In years to come we’ll be talking about mindfulness as we
talk about exercise now,” said Sally Boyle, head of human
capital management for Emea at Goldman Sachs.
 “When we look at low performing schools it’s not that
these children are unable to learn, it’s that very often they
are unavailable to learn,” said West Contra Costa County
school board member about the Mindful Life Project

10. Stress in the Workplace
Workplace Stress Responsible For
Up To $190B In Annual U.S.
Healthcare Costs
 Employees under extreme stress cost 40% more than those under
normal stress
 Causes
 Long hours
 deadlines
 finances
 politics
 personalities
 confinement
 nutrition & lifestyle choices

11. Stress in the Workplace: Costs are
so much more than monetary.
 sources of stress that can affect health. Some of these
contributors are directly related to on-the-job dynamics, such
as long hours, lack of control, job insecurity, and perceptions of
unfairness in the workplace.
 These factors affect health in two ways: they are both inherently
stressful on the body, and also lead to unhealthy behaviors like
alcoholism and overeating. Other factors the researchers
investigated stretched beyond the workplace, for example,
work-family conflict, lack of health insurance, and layoffs or
unemployment.
 regular mindfulness practices — meditation, yoga, tai chi
among them — have been shown to boost physical and mental
health by reducing stress and lowering blood pressure and
heart rate.

12. FINANCIAL IMPACT OF
MINDFULNESS
Research now points to the practical and measurable
benefits of mindfulness practice. Studies show mindfulness
makes people:
 less stressed
 more productive
 healthier
 even happier too.
In the last decade, mindfulness has been used inside
companies to:
 lower health costs
 improve employee productivity
 help employees stay “on task”
 reduce employee stress through a combination of
breathing techniques and mental relaxation

13. You and your employees AFTER
Mindfulness…. NOT !

14. The office in your mind AFTER
Mindfulness

15. Are you bringing your best self
to this choice ?

16. Employee Engagement &
Commitment:
Be the change you want to see,
employee engagement starts with you.

17. TIPS FOR YOU :
BE CLEAR
LEAD CLEAR
Things like meditation, breathing exercises, yoga, mindful eating are
practical tools to motivate, engage, supervise, manage, collaborate
When people feel good they perform better
Try this for 40 days
* 5 minutes Mindfulness Meditation twice a day
* Harmony Breathing Exercise before sleep and upon waking- 3 minutes

18. Lets do it –
Make your job more meaningful
“ Being kind to others is a way of
being good to yourself. “

Harold S. Kushner
 PLEASE DO YOR
HOMEWORK

19. Create a multifaceted holistic
plan …

20. Why Nutrition is important !

21. Nutrition for Brain Health

22. 7 Foods for Cognitive Function’

Salmon
Almonds
Green Tea
Steamed Green
Eggs
Pineapple
Coconut Water

23. Sample Program
 8 Week Program:
Meditation, Breathing Exercises, Space Clearing,
Yoga, Journaling , Gratitude, Listening Skills, Walking Program
 12 Week Program :
Meditation, Breathing Exercises, Space Clearing,
Yoga, Journaling , Gratitude, Listening Skills, Walking Program,
Nutrition, Self Assesments, PEP Feedback Training,

24. YOGALEAN MODEL
MINDFULNESS AND HEALTH
PROGRAM in the workplace
 Breathing
 Meditation
 Space Clearing
 Health Eating
 Gratitude
 Community Outreach & Service
 And much much more …..

25. THE YOGAFIT ATHLETE
PROGRAM in the workplace
 Think of yourself as an athlete and
a coach
 Encourages everyone to be a team
player and win
 Makes health a priority
 Sets goals and works together to
achieve them
 Eats for fuel not for fun
 Makes time for training

26. Recap
 What is mindfulness?
 How does one practice mindfulness?
 How does it help workplace productivity and
satisfaction?
 How can it translate outside the office?

27. Find and follow your bliss -
“Be aware, alert and joyful “- Bentley

28. NAMANNNa
 Beth@yogafit.com
 310-989-1287
 Yogafit.com
 Yogalean.com
 BethShaw.com